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SearchYC is shutting down(blog.searchyc.com)
303 points by chengmi 15y ago|59 comments
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by chengmi 15y ago
It's been a rough week. Hopefully things will return to normal once DNS propagates.
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by chengmi 15y ago
Little known fact: SearchYC does instant search if you add &instant=true to the URL: http://searchyc.com/hacker+news?sort=by_date&instant=tru... It's not enabled by default because it's not as useful without autocomplete.
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by chengmi 16y ago
I agree quoted strings in queries would be nice. There are some technical challenges in handling mixed queries where some terms are quoted and others are not, though.
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by chengmi 16y ago
"Abandonware" may be a bit extreme. How would you change SearchYC?
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by chengmi 16y ago
Those comments were cached when comment scores were turned off 10 months ago. It's strange that they haven't been updated since then.
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by chengmi 16y ago
Well, no. SearchYC has no revenue. I maintain SearchYC and host it out of a box in my closet as a service to the community. It doesn't make any sense for me to commit to do "whatever it takes". That being said, with a few hundred dollars wo
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by chengmi 16y ago
As it stands, SearchYC doesn't get enough daily uniques to justify beefing up the system. Frankly, SearchYC was an experiment in how quickly I could learn a new technology (RoR) and build a system. I was completely expecting someone to come
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by chengmi 16y ago
HN handles considerably more traffic than SearchYC.
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by chengmi 17y ago
Not unless pg replies to this with "Please stop".
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by chengmi 17y ago
I wonder if the FTC is scratching their heads wondering what to do about Apple product rumors.
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by chengmi 17y ago
SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.
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by chengmi 17y ago
I just moved the box from Cupertino to Palo Alto. Should be up now.
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by chengmi 17y ago
Oops, just restarted the server. Incidentally, the server will be down at some point in the coming few days because I'm moving.
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by chengmi 17y ago
http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg
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by chengmi 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607285 edit: How often does Google reply with the answer when you comment that you can't find something using their site? Now that's service right there...
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by chengmi 17y ago
Anywhere dark and clear, preferably in the mountains or on beaches away from the city. Skyline Blvd has worked well for me.
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by chengmi 17y ago
Why are so many sites filtered out? And by what criteria? http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points
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by chengmi 17y ago
Gah! Thanks for the tip. There's a bug relating to quotes on SearchYC and "how to be a" are all stopwords or ranked very low in relevance. http://searchyc.com/programmer+short+comprehensive+personal+...
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by chengmi 17y ago
We may be reading too much into this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=base+10%2Cdirac%2Ccheerios&#3...
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by chengmi 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the "pi" trend correlates well with vacation times in academia.
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by chengmi 17y ago
Server restart--I'm still pushing out a few minor changes.
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SearchYC Presents: SearchAF and SearchNM(blog.searchyc.com)
24 points by chengmi 17y ago|4 comments
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by chengmi 17y ago
I hope you realize the implications of handing over your databases to a third party.
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by chengmi 17y ago
Had to go into the database for this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58424
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by chengmi 18y ago
I don't think this qualifies as a garden path sentence because the reader doesn't "build an incorrect structure because the next word doesn't fit into that structure". This is more an example of syntactic ambiguity where a sentence may be "
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by chengmi 18y ago
Did anyone else read the title as "Programmer from Finland has lost (finger replaced with USB drive)"? I have a tendency to lose USB keys...
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by chengmi 18y ago
It's a Python interface to OpenCV's shared libraries. You still need the OpenCV binaries to be installed, though not necessarily the source.
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by chengmi 18y ago
Inflation. $50k in 1999 is roughly $63k now. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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by chengmi 18y ago
What about those of us with 9-5s?

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